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Get interviewed by Lil Dee of Rap Monster Radio. Rap Monster Radio is an online hip hop radio station with more than 60,000 listeners a month in over 180 countries.We will interview and provide you with an mp3 copy of the interview.Get the worldwide exposure you deserve.…See More

We are located in Hayesville, NC. In April we begin our new season with outstanding Poet Mike James. Mike will read at Writers' Night Out in Blairsville, GA on Friday evening April 13. On Saturday, April 14, he will teach a class at my studio.Formally SpeakingThis class will focus on different types of traditional poetic forms such as the sonnet, the villanelle, and the sestina, and will also include other verse forms such as erasures, found poems, prose poems, and last poems.Contact Glenda…See More

Step inside the revolutionary book, Silent Spring as its author Rachel Carson reveals the reckless destruction of our living world. Written more than 55 years ago Silent Spring inspired the Environmental Movement and has never been out of print. And now you have a chance to ask the author, Rachel Carson, how this came to be. But these aren’t just performances. They’re a chance to step into Living History – to ask questions and go one on one with a women whose books shaped our country and our…See More

"She looks like I look in my imagination right before I've had my coffee ... relaxed, bothered (by something, anything) and fully aware that I'm almost, but not quite, the center of the universe ... a feeling that quickly fades after that…"

She was working on the "About the Authors" section of "Echoes Across the Blue Ridge" when I captured this one morning. Though you can't see it, her coffee cup was within gentle reach that morning. Roxie is at her feet.

In 1945 Indiana prohibited marriage between a white person and anyone with more than one-eighth "Negro blood." Yet Daniel (black) and Anna (white) gave up family, friends, and eventually even country to create a life together. Their 42-year marriage…

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Thanks for putting this into one document. I've been following the narrative in the Citizen-Times. I find it an added resource for my next writing project. In 1910 my husband's grandfather (1866-1947) showed up in Missouri and said…"

Akzona Building excavation 1978

On Sept. 30, 1970, American Enka, International Salt Company, and Organon, Inc. merged to form Akzona, Inc. with plans to establish its headquarters in the Northwestern Bank building (later, BB&T; soon, Vandre Hotel). American Enka, a Dutch company, had begun production at its rayon plant on Smoky Park Highway on July 1, 1929. The plan for the new Akzona Building (now the Biltmore Building) included razing North Pack Square and, to accommodate a new bank building, demolishing the Legal and Commerce Buildings. The Asheville Revitalization Commission endorsed the plan, except for Chandler Gordon, who objected to the statement urging “City Council to give its fullest support.” The Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County ended up negotiating the preservation of South Pack Square. The “Pack Square Rehabilitation Project,” as it was called, included burial of above-ground wires; street paving; landscaping; pool and fountain construction; and changes to traffic and parking patterns, all funded by the city. On Sept. 22, 1977, City Council approved Akzona’s site plan, said to demolish buildings worth $300,000 to construct a $6 million one. Architect I.M. Pei said the office building will “make Pack Square what it should be and what it was at one time,” though there would be no shops and no money to assist displaced businesses. Photo courtesy of author.